‘Terrace Review — Wednesday, March E4, 1990 B13

They may be laughing here, but the action is frantic this week for Pacific Northwest Music Festival volunteers
like Flo Euverman, Loretta Lepp and Sarah deWalle. The festival wraps up with a gala performance Saturday
night in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre.

We were going to talk to Rita, but...

Rita MacNeil was not avail-
able for a scheduled telephone
interview with this Terrace
Review reporter March 6. Her
press agent telephoned to say
that she’d had a minor accident,
so the interview was scratched,
but not her performances in
Prince Rupert and Terrace
March [7 and 19.

‘ by Betty Barton

So I took the liberty of gather-
ing information on the Juno
Award’s Most Promising
Female Artist from other print
interviews with her. Articles

were by Barbara MacAndrew
and Nick Krewen, The Spec-
tator.

Rita MacNeil still lives in Big
Pond, Nova Scotia and she still
records the everyday lives of the
people there in her songs.

A highlight of this past year’s
Juno Award show was Rita,
with the Cape Breton mining

_ choir ‘The Men of the Deeps’’,

giving an emotionally charged
and memorable performance of
her single ‘“‘Working Man’’.

Recently, Virgin Records re-
leased ‘‘Rita’’, her eighth
album. .

Theater consultant
making rounds

Theater consultant Brent. Ap-
plegath will be visiting the
Northwest from March 25 to
April 8. Applegath will be run-
ning four-day. workshops -with
the drama clubs in Prince

Rupert, Kitimat, Terrace and.

Smithers. The focus of each

-workshop will be up to the in-

dividual clubs. Many will have
him consulting on their plays for
the Northwest Zone Drama

Festival, scheduled for April 26
. 028,
- . Applegath attended. the Play-
house Acting School for-acting,

voice, stage fighting, mask and
contact improvisation training
in 1981-82. He attended work-

shops for professional actors

with Carol Rosenfeld, H.B.
Studio, New York. He is a
regular improvisor at Theatre

Sports, City Stage, Vancouver, |.
and has extensive theater,. film, -

radio and television experience.
Applegath will be in Terrace
at the McColl Playhouse for

-workshops on March 27 and 28

and April 3-and 4. Contact Ken
Morton for more information at
635-7507, ,

Riverboat Days
looking for action

TERRACE-- The city’s annual
summer celebration is now in the
planning stages. Riverboat Days
1990, scheduled this year for Aug.
2-6, Is looking for events.

The Riverboat Days Commitice
will holds its next mecting April 4,
and local clubs, organizations and
individuals who want to sponsor

events are urged to attend. Entry
fees this year are $5 for individ-
uals and $25 organizations.

For more information, call River-

boat Days Committee chairman
Marla Thomsen (635-2268 or 638-
1854) or Mary Ann Burdett (688-

3265.or 638-1827).

Rita MacNeil’s first big break
came at an extended six-week
run at the Canadian pavilion at
Expo ‘86 in Vancouver. She
went home a star. In just two
years, she has chalked up three

 atinam record albums. The
most evident symbol of her new
star status is the big Victorian
house near Sydney Harbour,
Nova Scotia she bought last
year.

Six plays
entered
in zone
drama fest

Preparations for the North-
west Zone Drama Festival to be
held in Prince Rupert April 26 -
28 are going well.

Six entries have been: received
from drama clubs in the North-
west. Smithers has entered
“Baby with the Bathwater” by
Christopher Durang, a surreal
comedy. Prince Rupert’s Har-
bour Theatre Players have enter-
ed three plays: ‘‘On the Dock"’,
written by Prince Rupert resi-
dent Ken Campbell, Campbell
won a playwright’s award for
the play. “A. Little Something
for the Ducks’’, by. Jean Lennox
Toddie, stars Tom Rooney and

Molly Olson. The third Prince

Rupert entry is ‘True West’ by
Sam Sheperd.
Terrace lias submitted two en-

tries: ‘‘Room 44’’, written by

our own Daniel Barnswell and
‘*Forever Yours, Marie-Lou’’ by

- Michel Tremblay.

The adjudicator for the six
plays will be Harvey Miller, who
is.a professional director and an
instructor at the University of
Victoria. Miller is familiar with
this area, having adjudicated the
high school drama festival in
Prince Rupert three years ago.

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‘Terrace Art Gallery —

Terrace Hotel —
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orthwest arts and
entertainment calendar

@ Until March 17 — Pacific Northwest Music Festival.
® March 16, 8 p.m. — Scholarship Competition.
® March 17, 8 p.m. — Pacific Northwest Music Festival Gala Perform-

® March 19, 8 p.m. — Rita MacNeil in concert.

@ Until March 25 — Northwest Regional Juried Art Show with 62 entries
from artists of the Northwest.

Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —
@ Until March 17 — Bolero Brothers.
@ March 24 — B.C. Country Music Association Talent ‘Search.

“Hall of Fame”.
@ Augie’s — Gordon Hayman (for three weeks). —

Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 _

Kitimat Mount Elizabeth Theatre —
@® March 14 and 15 — Luba in concert. ,
@ March 28 — Marang, Talking Drums (school concerts for secondary

@® March 30, 8 p.m. — Tausig & Enemies (‘the funniest plano player this

Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre —
@ March 17, 8 p.m. — Rita MacNeil, presented by Prestige Entertain-

— “Wedding in Galilee”, P.R. Film Society.
® March 25, 7:30 p.m. — ‘“Marang, Talking Drums”, African music and
dance presented by the PAC Society.

@ March 29, 8 p.m. — “Tausig & Enemies”, presented by the P.R. Con-

@ March 30, 31 and April 1 — “Second Annual Comedy Festival”, featur-
ing the Royai Canadian Air Farce. Presented by the Performing Arts Cen-

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